First Fertility Clinic Appointment Tomorrow

@Myfavouritefudgecake I can’t remember your age, but I’m 38 now and I had the same issue since last July or August. Acupuncture helped get them back to normal from Feb (until this past month when they went weirdly light and short again) and it not be so light but I had a scan in January, one of the light period months, and I raised it with the nurse. She said no, it’s not a sign of thin lining necessarily, the body can reabsorb the lining. She then did my scan and my lining was 10mm (I was due to ovulate soon). So try not to panic. Personally I think the stress of all this contributes to these things, I would get a scan if you haven’t had one already.

@Myfavouritefudgecake have you had a pelvic ultrasound as part of your investigations yet? That would have a look at the thickness of your lining, and a light period does not equal a thin lining. Even when I had one day periods last year before my body normalised off the pill I still had a perfectly good lining for implantation. So check that first before you chuck 10k on a 3 cycle guarantee.

@Myfavouritefudgecake everyone has many different issues. You're chances are as good as anyone. I know it's difficult to go through but we all understand.

Hi all. Me and DH has a long chat over the weekend about what to do next. My AF came again and it was so light it only lasted a couple of hours which suggests my lining is incredibly thin and our chances of conceiving very low/zero. I’m scared of waiting to next year to start IVF as I feel my situation is getting worse and worse with each month. So I think we’re going to speak with the clinic about going private. I don’t know if this sounds dramatic but getting a super light period month after month just feels really traumatic. Actually that does sound dramatic doesn’t it! But it spins me into a depression for 24 hours. We’re looking at refund packages at the moment. I’m cautiously optimistic as I feel that if I respond well to oestrogen and get my lining nice and thick there isn’t any reason why my chances over 3 cycles would be any worse than anyone else’s. I obviously understand the statistics though but what can you do? I feel like we have to throw everything at this.

Oh no @Juno231 i hope you get there soon.

@dogmam how are you getting on?

@PurpleUnicorn01 hm I think it's @dogmam that will be your cycle buddy. I'm nowhere near IVF unfortunately!

@juno231 im not too sure yet as i pick my meds up on 1st July the downregs then1st scan about 2-3 week. I think my egg collection will be the same time roughly as yours. Yay a cycle buddy!

@PurpleUnicorn01 oh woop! What did they put you on? It's down regging first right - so EC late July do you think?

Hi Guys I hope you're well I will be having my 1st injection 1st July argh!

@Juno231 think there’s lots of consent forms in there, will go through it tomorrow so it’s another thing to tick off

@thislittlebird wow that's a lot of reading to do. The medication list is fascinating as well.

I like the look of this document too. Handy.

@Juno231 👀 ok....I’ll see what it says on the packet. Not looking forward to the alternative, that’s for sure.

I have a lot of weekend reading and forms, I guess. And a private prescription, no idea how much these will cost private.

@thislittlebird ha yes - although my paperwork stated suppository the meds themselves said oral so I hope I did the right thing by popping it orally!

Is this what you had @Juno231?

Won’t lie, the word suppository isn’t my favourite of the words. 😬

@dogmam I have to have 3 before I can have ivf. Rang last month and they didn't do it. This month i can't do as I'm away at the wrong time. So it'll be next month if they bother to do it! 🙄 CD9 today.
Its annoying as it takes over like 3 weeks of the bloody month so you literally can't plan anything.

@dogmam yeah she sent me a pack called antagonist short protocol or something and mentioned agonist trigger shot in the letter. I was reading which meds were agonist trigger shots earlier, can’t remember the names now but I recognised a couple.

@Juno231 interesting. I was on azithromycin recently for about seven weeks and I was impressed with how I didn’t get thrush (normally do with antibiotics) and it didn’t upset my stomach. Made a change.

@thislittlebird I got 1g of Azithromycin and 1g of Metronidazole

@Mum2Girls19 unfortunately you wouldn’t as you both have children from other relationships. It would be different if one of you didn’t. Also, that would depend on the borough you come under.

The borough I live in allows people to have have nhs funded ivf even if one partner has children from another relationship.

Talking about that. My OH is registered with another GP is in old borough still and the GP was really horrible. He has to give a sworn sample.and she Kept telling him he won’t get help and what’s the point in doing a sperm sample because he already has children. B##ch

@Juno231 what ones did they give you? I’ve had a prescription posted so not sure yet.

@kay00 ha tbh when I wrote the antobiotics piece I thought of you! I got two strong one off doses and it def messed with my tummy and tbh I wouldn't be surprised it my lingering thrush isn't coinciding with the antibiotics I got at my laparoscopy?

@thislittlebird never heard of an agonist trigger! Please report back :)

I still haven’t read the pack because my husband has been hogging the laptop but the secretary sent me a letter today from our appointment and in the email she said it’s a one off dose.

Also saw mention of an ‘agonist trigger’ for my high amh in the letter, need to do some more reading on this.